Do you also complain that you can’t use Uber without a cellphone?
Most people in society are more than willing to help those who for whatever reason can’t do for themselves. But are less forgiving for those who won’t
It's great it has some accessibility features to enable such users access to some smartphone specific functions, that they can't have in other ways, such as audio directions. But that doesn't mean we should be actively push this audience to smartphones and destroy actual accesibile designs for things that haven't required a smartphone in the past. let alone berate people for failing to get on with the times and embrace the clearly inferior "evolution".
Do you think the washers and dryers have brail on them? Do you think cash is easier for blind people?
>>Do you also complain that you can’t use Uber without a cellphone?
I do actually, it's one of the major problems with Uber in my opinion, and that's why a lot of people still stick to local taxi companies that you can just call. But Uber is generally completely shit for accessibility, where law forces local taxis to be accessible Uber usually does their usual bullshit of skirting these regulations and saying absolutely crazy things like "if there is demand for wheelchair accessible taxis then the market will respond".
>>But are less forgiving for those who won’t
Who won't what? I don't understand what you're alluding to.
If you choose to use much less convenient taxis instead of an Uber because of a refusal to use cellphones that’s on you.
> despite the fact that iPhones are a minority of devices out there and in most places they are luxury devices
iPhones are big a minority in the US - where the college is located.
And Google not having accessibility options as good as the iPhone sounds like someone needs to be suing Google under the ADA.
But do you really think blind people are not buying devices that actually work for them?
I always laugh when I see people standing on the side of the road staring first at their phone and then out into traffic as they wait for an uber to show up, and meanwhile at least five taxis have gone by that they could have hailed on the spot.
We were here for the US Tennis open.
Hope you enjoyed your time in the city!
That's cool - wish Uber would have that option worldwide.
>>If you choose to use much less convenient taxis instead of an Uber because of a refusal to use cellphones that’s on you
If you think my message is about refusal rather than physical impossibility of using a smartphone, that one is on you I'm afraid.
>>And Google not having accessibility options as good as the iPhone sounds like someone needs to be suing Google under the ADA.
I don't live in the US, I don't know what ADA is.
>>But do you really think blind people are not buying devices that actually work for them?
I know some blind people and they are all on government benefits and way too poor to afford an iPhone. They all have those "old people" mobiles with huge buttons and braille on them. A modern smartphone is both out of reach financially and as far as I understand it just doesn't work for someone who is completely blind.
I don't hear it (the harshness of responses like yours it would engender might have something to do with it), but I don't see anything wrong with the complaint. I can make HTTP requests from my laptop.
Uber's smartphone requirement is an unnecessary one.
Outside of questions of accessibility, having web-based access is also very useful for unexpected problems: I think people often have many ways of accessing the web, but usually only one smartphone. My partner recently needed to get to a train station when an OS bug suddenly stopped most apps from working on her phone; being able to use her laptop to call a car was extremely helpful.